Thank you for giving me correct information. I hope I did not mislead, but I was just making a comment about a treasure that has been preserved. Im glad I gave out the wrong info.,because now I can go and have fun, learn something new and read my gg-greatfather's journal! Thanks for the the info everybody! Holly ---------- > From: AEParshall@aol.com > To: HANDCART-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [HANDCART-L] Deseret Alphabet in ancestors' journals > Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 5:35 PM > > > In a message dated 06/12/98 1:12:36 PM, hulaboy@sprintmail.com wrote: > > >It didn't do me a bit of good to read it due to > >the fact that it is written n the secretive DESERET ALPHABET. > > The Deseret Alphabet is very, very easy to read (assuming your grandfather had > reasonably decent handwriting) after only a half hour or so of study. You > won't read it fast at first, but it will come quite easily. > > There's nothing at all secretive about it. It is quite easy to find material > about it on the internet, for example, and I even found a DA font for my > Macintosh in the AOL library. Try: > > http://people.delphi.com/deseret/home/homealph.htm > > for starters. You can find the alphabet, with sample paragraphs, in quite a > few readily available places, including the materials that are distributed to > seminary students during their year on church history. Since you live in > Utah, you have easy access to microfilmed copies of the Deseret News -- scan > the films, especially for the weekly edition of the paper, for the right years > and you will find the DA/romanization table frequently and sample articles > every few days. > > If you're really interested in reading your ancestor's journal, you can do it > with very little preparation and only moderate effort. Wasn't secret then, > and isn't secret now. > > Ardis Parshall > AEParshall@aol.com >